Category: Review
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An Unforgettable Night with Kehlani
The pop star powered through what felt like a cursed stop on their Blue Water Road Trip tour Sunday evening at Seattle’s WAMU Theater.
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‘The Killing Floor’ is an Essential Historical Drama
‘The Killing Floor’ is as much an illuminating history lesson as it is a great, impassioned movie about the indignities of labor and the importance of fighting for a seat at the table.
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‘The Devil and Miss Jones’ Did ‘Undercover Boss’ First
Like how the film offers the unrealistic fantasy of a for-the-people mogul, we can only fantasize about a smarter, bolder version of ‘The Devil and Miss Jones.’
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‘Norma Rae’ Still Invigorates
‘Norma Rae’ isn’t electrifying by force. Instead, just by carefully dramatizing the process of unionization, it captures the simple thrills of workplace organization — the pleasurable charge felt when you realize it’s possible to have a say in an arena where you never thought you’d have one.
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‘Chameleon Street’ Still Feels a Step Ahead
Faking it till you make it is rarely as literal as it is in ‘Chameleon Street.’
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‘Strike!’ Keeps Things on the Surface
‘Strike!’ is slight but pleasant, redeemed by a charming cast and a writer-director, Sarah Kernochan, whose fondness for her characters and subject matter is infectiously clear.
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‘Brubaker’ is Admirable But Thin
‘Brubaker’ comes to epitomize what beleaguers so many so-called message movies: elucidating the macro issue of the hour with such hyperfixation that anything on the micro remains decorative.
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The Rise of Enumclaw
The Tacoma-based four-piece, whose debut album arrives in October, is among the most buzzed-about bands to emerge from the South Sound in years.
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The Helter-Skelter Brilliance of ‘Bone’
In typical fashion for writer-director Larry Cohen, ‘Bone’ is as prone to incisiveness as feeling like it’s going to fly off the rails and fall apart.
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A Young Woman Adrift
Sandrine Bonnaire is extraordinary in Agnès Varda’s masterful ‘Vagabond.’
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Misery Loves Company: On Phoebe Bridgers at Marymoor
The 28-year-old singer-songwriter is playing two sold-out dates at the Redmond venue this week.
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‘The Cassandra Crossing’ is a Disaster-Movie Turducken
‘The Cassandra Crossing’ is among the cruelest of disaster movies.
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